News Release

TOKYO, July 30, 2018—Canon Inc. announced today that the prize winners have been selected for its New Cosmos of Photography 2018 (41st edition) photo competition—Canon's cultural support project that aims to discover, nurture and support new photographers.

The Excellence Award Selection Committee

2017 Grand Prize winners deliver their presentation to the selection committee last year

The New Cosmos of Photography accepted entries for the 2018 competition from April 20 to June 15, attracting 1,992 submissions from around the world. Of those, seven Excellence Award winners and twelve Honorary Mention Award winners were selected.

The award-winning works will be displayed as part of The New Cosmos of Photography 2018 Exhibition at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum from October 27 to November 25. The exhibition will be held alongside "Another man's floor," an exhibition of new work by the Grand Prize winners of the New Cosmos of Photography 2017, Trond Ansten and Benjamin Breitkopf.

The New Cosmos of Photography 2018 Grand Prize winner will be chosen from the Excellence Award winners at a public meeting of the Grand Prize Selection Committee1 to be held on November 2. Each candidate will give a presentation and face questioning by the selection committee, after which the committee will deliberate and choose the Grand Prize winner. Before that, on October 27, a presentation session will be held where the award winners will introduce their works and the intention behind them.

On November 3 and 4, a special event will be held featuring a portfolio review session and lectures by members of the Grand Prize Selection Committee Emilia van Linden and Sandra Phillips and former selection committee member Minoru Shimizu.

Excellence Award winners

Entrant

Entry title

Selected by2

Shinichiro Uchikura

Collection

Tomoko Sawada

Susumu Okuda

create new value

Sandra Phillips

Kyosuke Sasaki

Street View

Kunie Sugiura

Song-Nian Ang

Hanging Heavy on my Eyes

Emilia van Linden

Derek Man

What Do You See, Old Apple Tree?

Hiraki Sawa

Masashi Beppu

2011–2018

Takashi Yasumura

Megumi Yamakoshi

How to hide my Cryptocurrencies

Noi Sawaragi

Honorary Mention Award winners

Entrant

Entry title

Selected by2

Mai Ishida

One's memory

Sandra Phillips

Keita Otsuka

Night Window

Emilia van Linden

Shinichiro Kitamura

Dream Journal

Kunie Sugiura

Yusuke Kito

ROLLER FREAKS

Tomoko Sawada

Kim Kyungbong

Philosophy of Elegance

Takashi Yasumura

Hisashi Kobayashi

That's life isn't it

Noi Sawaragi

Cai Yuan-qi

It is sad to find out last summer's t-shirts are worn out

Hiraki Sawa

Yukari Sasaki

Grandma's House

Hiraki Sawa

Azusa Takade

ballerinas

Kunie Yasumura

Daisuke Takeya

Fukushima NO ALICE

Sandra Phillips

Ryosuke Higo

oozing

Tomoko Sawada

Kimi Mikawa

Fiction

Noi Sawaragi

1Advanced reservation is required to attend the public meeting of the Grand Prize Selection Committee and special event.

2Each of the seven members of the selection committee chose their respective Excellence Award winner and up to two Honorary Mention Award winners.

Grand Prize Winners of the New Cosmos of Photography 2017 Special Exhibition

Artists

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Trond Ansten and Benjamin Breitkopf

Title

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Another man's floor

Artists' intent

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A narrative is built through performative acts in a dialog between the south of Europe and the North. The ceiling of our story is formed on the drift ice of the Greenland Sea and spans to a lake of Anthropocene origin in the Black Forest. Bricks of stories expand from one another and form the visual poem of "Another man's floor."